04-07-2005, 02:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-07-2005, 02:52 AM by MongoJerry.)
savaughn,Apr 6 2005, 04:11 PM Wrote:This one doesn't make sense to me. When pollied, none of your abilities work. If you are polymorphed, you can't shift into animal form. This would require a LOT of recoding to pull off and doesn't seem like there is a demand to justify the work this would require.
There was a Blizzard developer comment on this a while back, saying that they wanted to make it so that Druids could counter polymorph on themselves, since they are able to effectively polymorph themselves. So, this actually fits with what the developers had already said they were going to do.
Quote:Ok, this is a complete redesign. What's more, it's not a unique one - this is basically "we're going back to D2 mode with this". I don't buy this in the least. Mana Shield is very functional in its current form and I'm willing to bet that the current form (vs. the D2 original) was argued and discussed for months and months before they came out with the final Mage class. Again, it looks like a wish list.
I agree with Quark on this. It again makes sense to make an unutilized talent useful.
Quote:These feel like nails in the coffin. I've read way too many times that central to the WoW PvP design was to avoid nerfing abilities in PvP. D2 was a horrible mass of PvP nerfs with abilities working completely differently vs. players than monsters. Avoiding this was one of the design guidelines. Neither Frost Nova nor Cone of Cold is so overpowering in PvP that it needed to be crippled in a way that would kill the design guidelines. Even if it was "needed", I especially don't see why this would go in before Battlegrounds.
And again I agree with Quark. They already have all crowd control spells capped at 15 seconds in PvP with diminishing returns. This just fits that same criterion.
Quote:That said, I could very well be wrong. It just doesn't feel legit to me.
It could be fake, but the items you pointed out doesn't point to it being fake. One of the four has already been previously announced. The other three items make sense and fit with Blizzard's general tendencies on these kind of items.